Combined cane and folding stool.



N0 MODEL.

PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904.

O. S. ROGERS.

COMBINED CANE AND FOLDING STOOL.

APPLICATION PILEDOOT. 27, 1903.

2 SHEETSSHEET 1.

No. 767,245. PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904. G. 8. ROGERS.

UOMBINBD CANE AND FOLDING STOOL.

' APPLIGATION FILED OUT. 27, 1903.

H0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET-Z.

UNITED STATES Patented August 9, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S. ROGERS, OF HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO CONVERTIBLE CANE SEAT MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS,

MISSOURI.

COMBINED CANE AND FOLDING STOOL- SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. (67,2 15, dated August 9, 1904.

Application filed October 27, 1903.

To a whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLEs S. ROGERS. a citizen of the United States, residing at Hot Springs, Garland county, State of Arkansas, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Combined Cane and Folding Stool, of which the following is a specification containinga full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in a combined cane and stool; and it consists of the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter shown, described, and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents my invention in condition to be used as a walking stick or cane. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of my invention in condition to be used as a stool or seat. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of my invention in condition to be used as a stool or seat. Fig. 4 is a top plan View with parts removed of my invention in use as a stool or seat. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of a portion of my invention with parts broken away.

The object of my invention is to construct a device which may be used as a walking stick or cane and which when necessity requires may be converted into a stool or seat.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the hand-section of the walking stick or cane, and 2 indicates the bottom section of said walking stick or cane. Said sections are capable of being united by means of a tube 3. The top end of said tube 3 is secured to the section 1 by means of rivets or brads 1. Mounted on the section 2 is a tube 5, provided with an internally-screw-threaded socket 6, and secured to the top end of the section 2 is a screwthreaded band 7, adapted to be adjusted and screwed into the screw-threaded socket 6 of the tube 5. By this construction the section 2 is made adjustablethat is, the invention when used as a walking-stick may be adjusted to difierent lengths, or when used as a seat or stool may be adjusted to suit the convenience of the user.

The upper end of the tube 5 is provided with Serial No. 178,795. (No model.)

a socket 8, a shoulder 9, a diaphragm 10, and external screw-threads 11. The lower end of the tube 3 is provided with internal screwthreads adapted to be screwed onto the external screw-threads of the tube 5. By inserting the internal screw-threads of the tube 3 into the external screw-threads 11 the sections 1 and 2 of the cane are secured in operative position for a cane or walking-stick. The diaphragm 10 is provided with a central opening 12.

Located in the socket 8 is a plug 13, which is provided with a screw-threaded bore 1 1. Said plug 13 is secured in said socket and adjusted therein by means of a screw-threaded bolt 15. The plug 13 is also provided with perforated ears 16 and slots or depressions 17 Pivoted to the perforated ears 16 is a series of arms 18, the inner ends of said arms being pivoted to said ears by means of pivots 19. Said arms are adapted to be folded and dis tended.

When the arms 18 are distended and the invention is in condition to be used as a seat or stool, the lower edges of the inner ends of said arms rest on the top edges of the wall surrounding the socket 8. The outer ends of said arms 18 are provided with openings 20 and projections 21. Laced through the openings 20 is a cord 22, and mounted on the cord 22 is a textile seat 23. Mounted on the projections 21 of the arms 18 is an endless chain 24, and intermediate of the inner and outer ends of the arms 18 are eyes 25. Mounted in said eyes is a series of links 26, the inner ends. of said links being united by a common ring 27. The object of the links and the chain 24 is to strengthen the arms when my invention is used as a seat or stool.

When it is desired to use my invention as a walking stick or cane, the parts are assembled as heretofore described and as illustrated in Fig. 1.

When it is desired to use my invention as a seat or stool, the tube 3 is unscrewed from the screw-threads 11 and the section 2 of the cane and the parts carried thereby are removed from the tube 3 and folded out, as

illustrated in Figs. 2, 3, 1, and 5, it ,being noted in this connection that the seat portion of the stool is adapted to be folded up and inserted into the tube 3 when the device is used as a cane.

The segregation of the cane or walkingstick and the interposition of a tube between the hand-section and lower section thereof, capable of having the seat portion of the stool folded up and inserted therein, and also of answering as a means for uniting the sections of a cane, make a very simple and compact device of the character indicated.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim is 1. A combined cane and stool comprising the section 2; the screw-threaded band 7 fixed upon said. section; the tube 5 adjustably screwseated upon said band; the socket 8; the diaphragm 10; the plug 13 secured in said socket; the cars 16 carried by said plug; the arms 18 connected to said. ears and engaging the upper face of the wall of the socket; the cord 22 laced through the outer ends of the arms; the seat 23 mounted on the cord; the chain 24 connecting the outer ends of the arms; the links 26 connecting intermediate portions of said arms; the handle 1 and the tube 3 connecting the handle to the section 2, substantially as specified.

2. In a combined cane and stool, a lower section; a screw-threaded band fixed upon said section; a tube adjustably screw-seated upon said band; a diaphragm at the upper end of said tube; a socket above said diaphragm; a plug in said socket; ascrew inserted through said diaphragm into said plug; and arms at tached to said plug, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES S. ROGERS.

Vitnesses:

ALFRED A. EIOKS, M. G. IRION. 

